malscrung, f.n: bewitching, fascination. (“mall-shroong”)
Category Archives: magic + supernatural
eges-grime
eges-grime, n: (fem.) a witch, sorceress; (masc.) a horrible mask, a creature that has assumed a horrible form, a spectre. (“ay-yes-gree-meh”)
Happy Halloween!
wudu-ælfen
wudu-ælfen, f.n: a wood-elf, wood-nymph. (“woo-doo-al-fen”)
rȳne-mann
rȳne-mann, m.n: one skilled in explaining mysteries. (“ruh-neh-mahn”)
For those curious about whether there’s a connection to the modern English word rune, here’s the etymology given in the Oxford English Dictionary.
un-tȳdre
un-tȳdre, m.n: an evil growth, evil progeny, a monstrous birth. (“un-teed-reh”)
un-holda
un-holda, m.n: a fiend. (“un-hol-dah”)
Miniature of a dead man and the devil. The soul was believed to exit the body through the mouth, so the devil is positioning himself for a timely catch. From Justinian’s Digestum Vetus with glossa ordinaria. France, S. (Toulouse?), c. 1300 – c. 1310. British Library, MS Arundel 484, fol. 245r. [British Library]
pūcel
pūcel, m.n: a goblin or demon (like Shakespeare’s sprite called Puck in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. (“pook-el”)
dwimor
dwimor, n.n: an illusion, delusion, apparition; phantom. (“dwih-mor”)
Happy Halloween!
Image from British Library Medieval Manuscripts blog: Detail of an historiated initial ‘D'(ilexi) with a woman (Duchess Dionora?) with a skull for a face admiring herself in a hand mirror, with ‘Memento homo’ in a roundel at the left, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead, from a Book of Hours (‘The Hours of Dionara of Urbino’), central Italy (Florence or Mantua), c. 1480. British Library, MS Yates Thompson 7, f. 174r.
hell-cniht
hell-cniht, m.n: an infernal servant, a devil as servant. (“hel-k-nit”)
Image from Bibliothèque nationale de France: Matfré Ermengau, Breviari d’amor et Lettre à sa soeur; Chansonnier occitan. France, 1301-1400.
ellen-gǣst
ellen-gǣst, m.n: a bold or powerful spirit. (“el-len-gast”)
